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Speaker: Representative Ellen Bogdanoff
Grapevine: News and Notes about WEC Members
August Luncheon
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August Luncheon Tuesday 8/15/06 11:30 Networking 12:00 Luncheon |
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Tower Club, 28TH floor |
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Guest Cost: $25.00 Members are responsible for guest |
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Tower Club House Salad with a choice
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Please
RSVP (including your menu choice) by Monday, August 9th to rsvp@wecftl.com We appreciate your RSVPs! To assist Susie administratively, please put “WEC Lunch” in the subject line. |
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| REMINDER: The 5th floor of the parking
garage is still in disrepair, which is presenting a challenge.
If the lot is full you can park in the Templeton building.
The Tower Club dress code does not permit jeans or shorts. |
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Rep. Ellen Bogdanoff
From
the President
Fellow WEC members, I am honored to be your 2006-07 President. Welcome back to a year of stimulating speakers and exciting events. It will be hard to follow such a great 2005-06 led by our Past President Ronnie Karlin but I believe that our new Board is ready to do a great job.
First a big thank you to everyone who attended our Annual Retreat held at the Lauderdale Yacht Club. We brainstormed around many different topics to generate ideas for the different WEC committees. Several different committees are now forming so please review the list of Board members shown at the end of this newsletter and if there is something that you are interested in joining please contact the appropriate Board Member.
This year I have asked that our speakers include in their luncheon presentations their thoughts on what makes them passionate about their work. I believe personally that one of the great differences between women and men in the workplace is that women bring passion to what they do. Women’s work is always more than just a job. The most successful women that I know are truly passionate about what they do. So don’t miss the first speaker of the year Florida Representative Ellyn Bogdanoff. She will speak on Tuesday August 15th about her work in the Florida House and of course what makes her really passionate!
Several members asked me if we would be continuing our monthly lunches at the Tower Club or returning to the Riverside Hotel. After looking carefully at both options I decided that we should remain at the Tower Club. We have booked the lunch dates for the entire 2006-07 year that you can see further in this newsletter. Booking all the dates early will ensure that we will always be in the larger meeting room at the Tower Club. Parking will continue to be difficult until the repairs to the ramp are completed later this year. One other thing to remember is that our luncheon begins at 12 noon and ends at 1.30pm. Several members seemed to think that our luncheons end at 1pm and I wanted to clarify this point.
I am very excited to be your President for the coming year. Please feel free to contact me at anytime with your questions or suggestions. You can reach me by email at vgodfrey@bluewaterweb.com or by telephone 954-763-6533 x245. Because I travel often for my work if the matter is urgent it is best to leave me a phone message and not an email. I cannot always respond to email as quickly as a phone call.
Vivien Godfrey
Photos from June Lunch
Thanx to our photographer, Joni Rosenthal!
The
Executive Grapevine: news and notes about WEC members. (send them email
by clicking on their name)
Deb McLaughlin Proud Report: I've got two college grads - in one happy weekend in Orlando! Jonathan Rodgers with a BS in Game Development and Design from Full Sail (high tech focused school). His team'sgames were rated "Best Game" by the class and the staff and were put on the school's arcades. Anyone have a Gaming contact? This talented guy needs a job - he's armed and ready to code! Sarah Rodgers with a BS in Hospitality, Cum Laude, from UCF. She has the top grades in Hospitality and received a Medallion of Excellence and sat on the platform with the other top students in the other 9 colleges there. She landed a day job with the new Hilton in Melbourne (bye-bye all nighters at the DoubleTree in Cocoa!).
Maureen Kohler named the September 2006 Lexus Arts Leader of the Month.
“The South Florida Lexus Dealers and Channel 2 salute Maureen Kohler, Executive Director of ArtServe, for her commitment to promote and preserve the arts in South Florida as this month’s Lexus Leader of the Arts”. David Mullins, Channel 2, Vice President for Marketing
Geri Trodick writes: American Trophy is having an open house on August 17th from 6-8 PM. Everyone is invited to see what we do.
831 West McNab, Pompano Beach. It is on the Northwest corner of Old McNab Road
Denise Cooper Ross has recently moved her practice to Dr. Amy Arnold Van Gent's newly created Luma Centre for Cosmetic Surgery and Body, Mind, & Spirit. Perhaps you've seen them in the newspapers? Luma Centre is located at 2151 East Commercial Blvd., Suites 301 and 302. Denise plans to keep us posted on some of the upcoming events and offerings soon to be made available at the new center....good stuff!
Chris Guld, your webmaster, is furthering her ability to provide computer training by creating online video tutorials. Check out her website at guldsystems.com and click on the link to Video Tutorials. Just for WEC she created some online video tutorials for you to learn more about using the 'Members Only' website. Check them out:
Tutorials for WEC members on how to use the website. Each one is only a couple minutes long.
Logging In: Go to the public website (wecftl.com) and login to the private website
Directory
1: View
Members, Sort, Select, Update your own information
Directory
2: Advanced searching, viewing prospects and
past members as well as members.
Calendar:
How to view the calendar of upcoming events, how to add an event
Email: Sending an email to all WEC members.
BCC: How to get the BCC field to appear in Outlook
Club Documents: How to download, edit and upload club documents.
Book Club
Joni Rosenthal writes: It is that time again to bring your awe-inspiring persona’s to share with and stimulate the book club bunch of hooligans on Monday, August 14, 2006.
Arrival time: 6:30pm at Joni Rosenthal’s home the Four Seasons condominium
333 Sunset Drive – Suite 202
Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33301
954 462-4620
Along with the interesting stories that we share concerning our own lives, our stories that are brought about with every book that we have read so far, we will be discussing our choice for this month:
The Mermaid Chair,
by the author of “The Secret Life of Bees”, Sue Monk Kidd.
This is a story about a 42-two year old woman, Jessica Sullivan who is in the so called mid-life crisis. This book seems to shout about some of us who are in this passage of our lives. We get to play along with Jessica and see how she copes with her life of passion, misunderstanding, and love twinkled with erotic notions of the old approach to living. The author is an outstanding story teller. This is the kind of book that you can’t put down. It is a stick to it, until completed state of affairs.
Come join this group of witty and funny people. Bring a dish for 8 to 10 people that you create or purchase. Don’t be concerned about anything because we have found that we always seem to end up having a banquet of food along with great amity.
Can anyone ask for anything more!
The Directions
Go down Las Olas Boulevard – east toward the ocean.
when you see the Citco gasoline station, you make a right
turn – this is Sunset Drive
Look to the right of the car and see a two tone pink building with a portico and circular driveway. Bring your car to the door and Charles will gladly park it for you!
Please sign in the book and you will be keyed upstairs.
Go left to apartment 202.
Happy Day to You and Yours!
Cannon Circle
August Cannon Circle
August 24th
6PM
Hosted by Ronnie Karlin and Jan Mayer-Rodriguez @ Jan's home
3401 NW 122 Ave, Sunrise
home: 954.748.3182
cell: 954 804.7502
Please RSVP to JanMayerRodrigue@aol.com
FROM OAKLAND PARK BLVD
Note: I live almost where Oakland Pk Blvd ends on the west side of town; my backyard is Oakland Pk Blvd and Flamingo)
So given that:
- Go WEST on Oakland Park Blvd until 120th Way (it's 1 traffic light east of Flamingo Rd).
- Turn right on 120th Way (N)
- Turn left i(W) nto the first entrance on the left (Sawgrass Estates NORTH)
- Turn left again once inside the development and stay on that road (it'll become 34th Street). Stay on that road until you're at the West end of the development
- I live at the end of 34th street where 122 Ave starts
- 3401 NW 122 Ave
WEC Board of Directors
2006-2007
President, Vivien Godfrey
Past President, Ronnie Karlin
Nominating Committee
Canon Circles
Business Showcases
VP Community Involvement, Melissa Rapkin
Mentorship (FX) Program
Women Empowering Women (WEW)
Community Outreach
Public Relations
VP Finance, Dorothy Eisenberg
Budget
Dues collection
VP Corporate Records, Cynthia Hardy
Corporate Records
Historian
By-Laws Committee
VP Internal Involvement, Joanne Dee
Programs Committee
Greetings Committee
Newsletter
Book Club
VP Membership, Marilynn Obrig
Membership Committee
Membership Luncheon
Directory
Webmaster
Social Committee
Fun raiser or Fund raiser
GEM Events
All contact information is available for WEC members on our Members Only website. If you are a member and you don't have a name and password, you can contact Chris Guld for more information.
2006-07 Luncheon Dates
August 15th Tuesday
September 19th Tuesday
October 17th Tuesday
November 15th Wednesday
December 15th Friday
January 18 Thursday
February 14 Tuesday
March 21 Wednesday
April 26 Thursday
May 15 Tuesday
June 19 Tuesday
Board Meetings
The purpose of Women's Executive Club is to give executives the opportunity
of fellowship with their peers in diverse fields; to promote the image
of the woman executive; to further the interrelationships of such executives
and to promote the general welfare of their businesses and community.